Creating a Clavister NetWall instance

This guide covers the deployment of a Clavister NetWall application firewall. To proceed, make sure you have an account in Cleura Cloud, and you are logged in to the Cleura Cloud Management Panel.

Step-by-step deployment

In the left-hand side vertical pane of the Cleura Cloud Management Panel, expand the Marketplace category and click on Discover Apps and Services. In the central pane, you will see all available applications and services. Locate the Clavister NetWall box and click the green View button.

You will see the Clavister NetWall information page, where you can learn more about its features, and obtain pricing information. Click the orange Deploy this App button to start the deployment process.

The firewall is hosted on a Nova VM, so now you may select a region, a name, a flavor, a public network, and a keypair for it.

Read and agree to the Terms and Conditions. When you are ready, click the green Create button.

The deployment takes a few minutes to complete. To check how it is going, expand the Marketplace category in the vertical pane on the left and click Provisioned Apps. In the central pane, watch the firewall Heat stack row. The animated icon at the left marks the deployment progress.

When the deployment is complete, you will see a white check mark in a green circle at the left of the row.

Logging into the NetWall dashboard

You need to know the firewall VM’s public IP address and the automatically generated password for the admin user. For that, make sure you are in the Provisioned Apps pane. Click on the firewall row to expand it, and select the Stack Output tab.

In the gateway_password row, click the icon in the Action column. A pop-up window appears, and you may click the blue Copy Output! button to copy the password to the clipboard. Close the pop-up window by clicking on the Back button.

Then get a pop-up window with the public IP, by clicking the icon in the Action column of the gateway_public_ip row. Again, you may click the blue Copy Output! button or, better yet, jot the IP down so you won’t overwrite the password in the clipboard.

In your favorite web browser, navigate to https://<public-ip>. You will see a warning regarding the self-signed certificate, so make an exception and allow the browser to load the page. In the login window, type admin in the Username text field, and paste the password in the Password field below. Click on the blue Login button to proceed.

The Clavister NetWall dashboard appears. At your convenience, take the time to familiarize yourself with it and explore the features the application firewall offers.

By now, you might want to put a new server behind the firewall.